The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-02-17

and color combined with the weight O
staple equaIied those just received
The price of seed is low
Complaint is made OF combinations O
oil miIlers to reduce prices. Renter
viii sell at any price; sometimes as Low
as 5(66 cents per bushel. The bes
planters refuse to sell at ruling rates
ana is 10 cents; IL In Arkansas; u IL
Texas and Tennessee; Is in South Caro-
lima, Georgia and Alabama, and 10 il
Florida. The product is larger thai
last year in Florida, Tennessee, Arkan
saS and Texas, and smaller in the othel
states. The average result from care
full analysis of present returns, is In the
aggregate less than % per cent. lowel
than that of last year.
DRAWING TO A CLOSE.
Nineteen working days remain TO the
present congress, thirteen of the four
! teen annual appropriation bills. includ-
ing the river and harbor bill are not yet
ready to 90 to the president. Ten re-
main to be acted upon by the senate.
nine require the action of senate COM
mitteeS, nine have not yet passed the
house and two have yet to make their
initial step from house committees.
| The last year fertilization bill yet lin
gers in conference.
ANTI-POLYGANIY BILL.
The substitution of Mr.. Hammond
| for Mr.. Tucker as member of the con-
| ference committee on the anti-polygamy
bill will not, it is believed, cause delay
| in the consideration of that measure.
The conferees will meet again tomor-
row and the indications are that an
agreement viii be reached on a bill SIM
| liar in its principles and provisions to
that passed by the house.
GOING TO CHICAGO.
Mrs. Logan intends to start for Chi
| cago next Saturday morning. While
there she will take out the necessary
papers for the administration of her
husbands estate and will also decide
upon his final burial place.
AMENDING PATENT LAWS.
Senator Cullom to-day introduced a
| that no person shall be debarred from
receiving a patent for his invention OF
/ discovery nor any patent declared i'll
valid by reason of its having been first
patented in foreign country unless the
same has been introduced into public
use in the United States for more than
two years prior to the application.
REPORTED FAvORABLY.
Senator SpOoner, from the COMMITTEES
| slight amendments, the bill recently
passed by the house giving the court of
claims jurisdiction over suits brought
against the government.
ASSISTING LOGGERs.
Senator Sabin to-day introduced a
bill authorizing the secretary of the in
terror to permit persons who are en-
gagged in cutting logs on small streams
that flow through Indian reservations
to make necessary improvements in
| clearing out rocks or building dams as
may be required to float the logs
| through rapids or shallow places.
NOT YET ANSWERED.
Treasurer Jordan, acting on behalf
of the directors of the Western Nation
al bank of the city of New York, called
on Secretary Manning this morning
| and formally rendered him the presi-
dency of that institution. The secre-
short time.
THE LARGEST ON RECORD
The commissioner of pensions has to-
| day started acquisitions for SIS, $50, 900
with which to make the payment of
pensions due March 4th next. This
| will be the largest payment for current
pensions made in any one quarter in
| the history of the government.
ADVERSE TO U. PRISONS.
The judiciary committee of the honse
to-day reported adversely and without
other comment than the recommends
ton that it do not pass Representative
Swineburne's bill for the erection of a
United States prison for the confine
ment of United States prisoners. All
| the republican members of the commit
tee unite in presenting long minority
report recommending the passage of the
bill. The report states that the bill has
the endorsement of the attorney gen.
| eral, who has earnestly recommended
the establishment of such a prison and
has set forth many good reasons there
| for in his annual report. The re-
ports point out the evils connected
with the contracting of convict labor
/ and continues. The sending of United
States prisoners to penal institutions
not under the direct control of the
United States government is of no fl
nancial benefit to the government, as it
receives nothing in return for their Ia
Dor, and results in frustrating the de-
| signs of justice, to make the prisoners
better men and law abiding citizens.
The prisons of the country are no long
or reformatory institutions, but money
making concerns, and the designs of
the authorities of the institutions seem
to be to make them self-snstaining at
the cost of making the convicts hard
posed in the bill, the great object of
| Justice would be better concerned in
making the prisons reformatory
as well as penal by having
men in charge whose object
would be to have the prisoners become
better men rather than interested in
thelamount of money they could realize
from the labor of the prisoner, and who
would not be melted from personal
motives to have the prisoners upon
their discharge commit some offence
that would return them to the institu.
ton, as is sometimes the case with par
ties interested in some of the prisons as
now conducted. In justice to honest
manufacturers and artisans, as well as
from considerations of humanity to the
prisoners themselves, the establishment
of one or more United States prisons il
demanded.
TO BE PUT IN SHAPE.
The secretary Of the navy has giveI
orders to have the following vessels a
San Francisco prepared for the purpos'
of being appraised by the board of in
spection: The Cyanie, Lackawanna
Shenandoah and Wachusett.
II Trouble Ahead.
| When the appetite fails and sleel
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